Horror

Jaws

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  • Title: Jaws
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Released 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws forever changed what a summer movie was and what horror movie was capable of. Far more successful than anyone could hope, Jaws captured the hearts and minds of audiences making it the most profitable movie ever released in theaters (at least until a certain sci-fi fantasy hit theaters two years later). Despite it’s troubled production, including a mechanical shark that often wouldn’t work as intended, Spielberg delivered by suggesting the shark’s presence through most of the first-half of the film relying heavily on his human actors and John Williams‘ famous score to set the mood of the film.

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A Hard Place

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  • Title: A Hard Place
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A B-movie horror flick, A Hard Place gives us a group armed robbers (most notably Rachel Amanda Bryant, Kevin Caliber, and Jennifer Michelle Stone II)  who end up in the desolate wilderness after a job stuck in the middle of a war between two neighboring redneck families of monsters. On one side there are the plant-based “Guardians” who roam the woods during the day and on the other are the more vampiric zombies who turn during the full moon. The arrival of the fresh meat also coincides with a solar eclipse which will bring both sets of monsters into battle at full strength.

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Final Destination: Bloodlines

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  • Title: Final Destination: Bloodlines
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I know it’s a pretty low bar, but the latest Final Destination is actually the best Final Destination film. We kick things off with an extended 60s sequence centered around young lovers Iris (Brec Bassinger) and Paul (Max Lloyd-Jones) at the grand opening of the Skyview Restaurant Tower which ends in the spectacular deaths of dozens of people. Big kudos to co-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein as both in terms of the period look, and in the complicated sequence of events. There’s a craft to Final Destination: Bloodlines that sets it apart from the earlier films.

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Final Destination 5

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  • Title: Final Destination 5
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To absolutely no one’s surprise, except apparently the makers of the film, centering the film around corporate assholes wasn’t the magic ingredient in fixing the devolving franchise. Final Destination 5 isn’t much of an improvement over the false advertising that already delivered us The Final Destination. Following the same set up as the rest of the franchise, Final Destination 5 starts with a bridge collapse which is survived by a handful of people thanks to the premonition of one member (Nicholas D’Agosto) of a group heading to a company retreat who manages to save some friends and strangers before his vision comes true. However, as we all know, Death isn’t about to be cheated.

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The Final Destination

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  • Title: The Final Destination
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The fourth installment to the franchise is hardly distinguishable from the fifth (which would put the franchise on hiatus for more than a decade). Offering no standout performances or all that memorable deaths, The Final Destination is just plain bad. Our big event, which a handful of characters avoid, is a car crash at a racecourse filmed in ways mostly to make the debris shoot out towards the audience in 3D. The utterly bland Nick (Bobby Campo) is responsible for saving a few of his friends and some strangers before the carnage takes everyone else. Then Death begins targeting the survivors (Nick Zano, Shantel VanSanten, Haley Webb, Justin Welborn, Mykelti Williamson, and Krista Allen) one by one.

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